This index is a sub-index to Probability Tropes, and related to This Index Is Highly Improbable. Here are tropes for when something is made rather glaringly obvious to or convenient for a character(s), in order to move things along quickly. Consider it God simultaneously railroading, holding and pointing with the character(s) hand.
NOTICE THIS: Not all relevant tropes will have "suspicious" or "convenient" in their names, and not all tropes with "suspicious" or "convenient" are relevant.
Tropes:
- Attack Its Weak Point: An enemy that is otherwise invincible conveniently has a glaring weak spot that can be used to defeat it easily.
- Benevolent Architecture
- Blatant Item Placement: Helpful items in a game are placed in spots that are convenient for the player, but make little to no sense in-universe.
- Boss-Arena Idiocy
- Chance Meeting Between Antagonists
- Coincidental Broadcast
- Coincidental Disguise-Complementing Trait
- Contrived Coincidence
- Convenient Cranny
- Convenient Eclipse: An eclipse occurs just in time to help the heroes in some way.
- Convenient Enemy Base: The heroes easily end up at, or close, to the enemy base.
- Convenient Escape Boat
- Conveniently an Orphan
- Conveniently Cellmates
- Conveniently Close Planet
- Conveniently Empty Building
- Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing: A sharp object happens to be nearby when a character needs a weapon in a fight.
- Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
- Conveniently Timed Distraction
- Conveniently Timed Guard
- Convenient Miscarriage
- Convenient Questing
- The Convenient Store Next Door
- Convenient Weakness Placement: An enemy's weakness happens to be readily available while fighting them.
- Crazy-Prepared
- Deus ex Machina
- Exact Eavesdropping: Eavesdroppers happen to overhear the most important part of a conversation.
- Fake "Better" Alternate Timeline
- Googling the New Acquaintance
- Great Big Book of Everything
- Hellistics: Unrelated events turn out to be connected with each other just to screw over the character(s).
- Inexplicably Preserved Dungeon Meat
- It's a Small Net After All
- It's a Small World, After All
- Just Take the Poster
- Laser-Guided Broadcast: A television show tells a viewer exactly what they need to know at the moment by sheer coincidence.
- Million to One Chance
- Mundane Solution
- Notice This
- Omniscient Database
- One Degree of Separation
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: An eavesdropper overhears a specific part of a conversation that misleads them.
- Overhead Interaction Indicator
- Plot Tailored to the Party
- Precision Crash
- Railroading
- Suspiciously Apropos Music
- Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record
- Suspiciously Cracked Wall: A crack in a wall usually indicates that it’s breakable with something behind it.
- Suspiciously Specific Sermon
- Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: When a player finds a large amount of healing items in a video game, a major battle is likely to be just around the corner.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
- Throw the Mook at Them
- Too Good to Be True
- Within Arm's Reach
